
The SNMP category provides a rich selection of probes used for different purposes. Let's take a look at some of the other categories.

I'll come back to this probe in a few moments. This probe allows you to view the status of many maps from a top level master map. The other basic probe is the Map Status probe. If Intermapper doesn't receive an SNMP response, the probe is automatically set to ping Echo. This probe and all SNMP probes cause Intermapper's marching ants to show in the map. If it gets a response, the probe type changes to the SNMP traffic probe, which obviously monitors traffic. Intermapper first queries the device with SNMP. The default probe is the Automatic probe. Remember, you can assign the same probe and its settings to all the devices you've selected, unless you edit probes from the Info window. The right pane shows the configuration options for the probe that is currently selected for the selected devices. On the left is a list of probe categories. You can also get to the Probe Selection Window from the Info Window. I'll right-click this server icon and choose Set Probe from the Set Info sub-menu.


With the map editable, select the devices you want to test in a particular way. Use the probe selection window to choose and configure a probe for one or more devices. Is your incoming or outgoing mail server working? Your FTP server? How's the paper in that printer? Wish you could tell when your UPS was overheating or a server disk was getting full? Use Intermapper's probes to get specific information from a huge range of devices.

MemCacheMemoryFree, 1.3.6.1.4.1.23.2.79.1.3.A quick tour of Intermapper probes and the Probe Selection window. Human_name = "Netware cache-memory monitoring" Nifty! Not much production use quite yet since it is new, but it does seem to work as advertised. I managed to get a custom Intermapper probe worked up! This will check the available cache-buffers for a netware server, and set a warning/alarm threshold for it.
